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Early Swedish winter morning, taken from the cab, cold as hell outside and could't be bothered to go outside..
This is what more then 20.000 miles of accumulated winter road muck looks like...
More not-so-funny-winter roads, wheelspin at level roads with a 28 ton load on...
Before 20.000 miles of winter driving, Volvo FH500 eev, globetrotter XL cab.
This is what more then 20.000 miles of accumulated winter road muck looks like...
More not-so-funny-winter roads, wheelspin at level roads with a 28 ton load on...
Before 20.000 miles of winter driving, Volvo FH500 eev, globetrotter XL cab.
Wish I had a Volvo 
We've all just been given a load of 450 G cab Scanias, I know there's much worse things to be spending the day in but these are pretty soul destroying. I hadn't driven a Scania for about 5 years and had forgotten how crap the ride is in them, 3 of them broke down and had to be dragged back the first day and the rest of them all have issues.
The units don't even look pretty as they've got no air kit on them and nothing covering the the pto driven blower where one of the fuel tanks used to be, lot's of flashy orange lights all over them though. They've got all of that cyclist safety b
ks on them too, indicate left and the lorry talks to pedestrians and there are sensors that set shrill alarms off in the cab if there is anything to the left of the vehicle. Lamp posts set it off, barriers set it off, trees set it off and the best one... kerbs set it off. So no one is indicating left 
We've all just been given a load of 450 G cab Scanias, I know there's much worse things to be spending the day in but these are pretty soul destroying. I hadn't driven a Scania for about 5 years and had forgotten how crap the ride is in them, 3 of them broke down and had to be dragged back the first day and the rest of them all have issues.The units don't even look pretty as they've got no air kit on them and nothing covering the the pto driven blower where one of the fuel tanks used to be, lot's of flashy orange lights all over them though. They've got all of that cyclist safety b
ks on them too, indicate left and the lorry talks to pedestrians and there are sensors that set shrill alarms off in the cab if there is anything to the left of the vehicle. Lamp posts set it off, barriers set it off, trees set it off and the best one... kerbs set it off. So no one is indicating left 
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s p a c e m a n said:
Wish I had a Volvo We've all just been given a load of 450 G cab Scanias, I know there's much worse things to be spending the day in but these are pretty soul destroying. I hadn't driven a Scania for about 5 years and had forgotten how crap the ride is in them, 3 of them broke down and had to be dragged back the first day and the rest of them all have issues.
The units don't even look pretty as they've got no air kit on them and nothing covering the the pto driven blower where one of the fuel tanks used to be, lot's of flashy orange lights all over them though. They've got all of that cyclist safety bks on them too, indicate left and the lorry talks to pedestrians and there are sensors that set shrill alarms off in the cab if there is anything to the left of the vehicle. Lamp posts set it off, barriers set it off, trees set it off and the best one... kerbs set it off. So no one is indicating left
A well specced Scania R cab is a different animal then a G Cab, but they're way off the comfort of a Volvo, even tho mine is the "old" cab design. Biggest difference between Scania and Volvo in my opinion is the wind and general cab noise, the Volvo is much quieter, and the all new Volvo cab feels like driving a really large well speced car tbh, very quiet and comfy. We've all just been given a load of 450 G cab Scanias, I know there's much worse things to be spending the day in but these are pretty soul destroying. I hadn't driven a Scania for about 5 years and had forgotten how crap the ride is in them, 3 of them broke down and had to be dragged back the first day and the rest of them all have issues.The units don't even look pretty as they've got no air kit on them and nothing covering the the pto driven blower where one of the fuel tanks used to be, lot's of flashy orange lights all over them though. They've got all of that cyclist safety b
ks on them too, indicate left and the lorry talks to pedestrians and there are sensors that set shrill alarms off in the cab if there is anything to the left of the vehicle. Lamp posts set it off, barriers set it off, trees set it off and the best one... kerbs set it off. So no one is indicating left Mine is not specced that well, but has really good seats, and the 500 engine does a good job, but wouldn't mind a 750 since I haul steel around...
Edited by PowerslideSWE on Thursday 12th March 13:01
bigwheel said:
s p a c e m a n said:
Well we get paid by weight so the boss should be happy, right? 
Mmmm?
STGO bulker?!
Got to the place and was weighed in, 49 tonne. Bloke on the gate said 'yeah they're always doing that, they fill them up at the dock in Belgium and are paid from our weighbridge ticket so just fill them up to the top when they're struggling to get them to us'
Done a few more since and swear that tank never had any baffles in it either
Had a change of material to haul, from steel-products to just steel re-bar.
Can look like this on the trailer, very fun to un-tangle at various construction sites...
And now in tune with the topic, view from inside or outside the cab. And I apologize for the apparent lack of quality in the pics, cellphone and all.
Todays weather, minus 20c and part dry part very icy roads..
And I saw these guys this morning while clearing the wipers from ice. These are moose, big ones at that, haven't seen a moose in the wild for 20 years despite living where I live, and there's supposed to be between 300.000 to 400.000 of them in Sweden. Again, cellphone pics, and I was in a hurry to capture them.
Can look like this on the trailer, very fun to un-tangle at various construction sites...
And now in tune with the topic, view from inside or outside the cab. And I apologize for the apparent lack of quality in the pics, cellphone and all.
Todays weather, minus 20c and part dry part very icy roads..
And I saw these guys this morning while clearing the wipers from ice. These are moose, big ones at that, haven't seen a moose in the wild for 20 years despite living where I live, and there's supposed to be between 300.000 to 400.000 of them in Sweden. Again, cellphone pics, and I was in a hurry to capture them.
PowerslideSWE said:
And I saw these guys this morning while clearing the wipers from ice. These are moose, big ones at that, haven't seen a moose in the wild for 20 years despite living where I live, and there's supposed to be between 300.000 to 400.000 of them in Sweden. Again, cellphone pics, and I was in a hurry to capture them.
They look Moose-ive 
bigfatnick said:
Are those photos representative of how much daylight you get in Sweden at the moment? How far north are you?
Those are shot at 8.30-ish in the morning. Today the sun rises at 08.21 and sets at 15:51 in Norrköping (58.35 parallel, same as southern Alaska, Quebec, Lewis and Harris islands of Scotland etc) where I live, which is quite far south, 100 miles south of Stockholm, but the moose were photographed near Strängnäs, which is around 70 miles north of Norrköping.At it's darkest around christmas it doesn't really start to get light until 9.30 in the morning, and the sun just makes a brief appearance and is on it's way down again around 1400, and by 1600 it's dark. But it's the opposite in summer with 17 hours of daylight in late june where I live, and midnight sun in the north for a few months. But then again Kiruna for instance which is really far north doesn't get any sun what so ever for a few months in the winter....
Slightly better weather yesterday Still cold, but sunny.
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